1979: The Role of the Library in an Electronic Societyhttp://hdl.handle.net/2142/954
16th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1979). Edited by F.W. Lancaster.Tue, 20 Mar 2018 02:27:03 GMT2018-03-20T02:27:03ZFuture directions for machine-readable data bases and their usehttp://hdl.handle.net/2142/1107
Future directions for machine-readable data bases and their use
Williams, Martha E.
Prior to discussing my views on the future directions of machine-readable
data bases and their use, it is appropriate to indicate the point of departure.
The history of the use of machine-readable data bases by the public
commenced in the late 1960s and has progressed from a small-scale batchsearching
activity, where services were largely restricted to SDI and operators
were delighted if a system could be made to be self-supporting, to the
current large-scale on-line retrospective and SDI service, where individual
organizations are not only "for profit" but are making profits and operating
with budgets in the tens of millions of dollars per year.
Libraries --Automation; Library science --Data processing; Future technology trends; Disruptive technologies
Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2142/11071979-01-01T00:00:00ZWilliams, Martha E.Electronic information exchange and its impact on librarieshttp://hdl.handle.net/2142/1106
Electronic information exchange and its impact on libraries
Turoff, Murray; Hiltz, Starr Roxanne
It has become common parlance that we are entering the "Information
Age." We would like to take the reader with us on an exploratory voyage to
the edge of some current information-age computer technology that may
transform the library. A precondition for joining this expedition is an
understanding of the "new world" which we hope to discover and build. It
is a societal state in which the library has become one of the anchors of
what we call "The Network Nation" an era in which the amalgamation
of computers and communications will reduce the time and cost needed to
span distances between people and information, and among people communicating,
to practically zero.
Libraries --Automation; Library science --Data processing; Future technology trends; Disruptive technologies
Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2142/11061979-01-01T00:00:00ZTuroff, MurrayHiltz, Starr RoxanneToward a dynamic libraryhttp://hdl.handle.net/2142/1105
Toward a dynamic library
Salton, Gerald
The combination of large memory capacities, intelligent front-end
devices for user/system interaction, and distributive computing methodologies
have changed the outlook for the mechanization of library processes.
Accordingly, the current plans for the design of the library of the future
differ from the earlier versions. The piecemeal mechanization efforts and
the integration of library processes into a single management system are
being replaced by the construction of cooperative library networks and by
tentative plans toward a paperless library system which would operate at
some future time in a totally new environment. The main considerations in the design of library networks and paperless
library systems are outlined in the next section. Some concepts are then
introduced which may be utilized in the implementation of an alternative,
so-called dynamic library. Finally, a number of specific processes are
examined which may be incorporated into the proposed dynamic library
system of the future.
Libraries --Automation; Library science --Data processing; Future technology trends; Disruptive technologies
Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2142/11051979-01-01T00:00:00ZSalton, GeraldThe virtual journal: Reaching the readerhttp://hdl.handle.net/2142/1104
The virtual journal: Reaching the reader
Roistacher, Richard C.
I believe that our mixed record of success and failure described here
is indicative of what must be done to ensure for virtual journals a
significant level of readership. Our failures have involved people possessing
all degrees of computer skill who did not feel it worthwhile to fight
their way onto the system in order to compute or exchange information.
The factors influencing our teleconferencing successes and failures were
( 1 ) availability of a communication line, (2) experience of the user, (3) the
degree to which the user desired to do substantive work on our computers,
and (4) the need for several users to work cooperatively.
Libraries --Automation; Library science --Data processing; Future technology trends; Disruptive technologies
Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2142/11041979-01-01T00:00:00ZRoistacher, Richard C.Happiness is a warm librarianhttp://hdl.handle.net/2142/1103
Happiness is a warm librarian
de Solla Price, Derek
I
want to emphasize the likelihood of enormous change in the course of
adapting to the new technologies. These technologies will give rise to
quite a new and essentially human need from librarians and information
scientists, particularly for the gift of the peculiarly human pattern of
thinking. In this little discourse I would like to set forth views which are
those of a person who is only a hobbyist of information science... trying to
balance the internal and external patterns of development of science and
technology.
Libraries --Automation; Library science --Data processing; Future technology trends; Disruptive technologies
Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2142/11031979-01-01T00:00:00Zde Solla Price, DerekThe impact of technology on the production and distribution of the news. Part 2: Delivering the news of the futurehttp://hdl.handle.net/2142/1102
The impact of technology on the production and distribution of the news. Part 2: Delivering the news of the future
Marvin, Carolyn
For the newspaper of the future, the heart of the significant technological
change is the computer's transformation of print production, since the
same digital signal which prints a newspaper can be converted to other
final formats as well such as teletext, or text displayed on a video screen.
Because of the great variety of possibilities for print and teletext, in combination
or separately, the forms and procedures through which each of us
will receive news in the future, if there is a single future, is not yet fixed. But
possibilities that have been only speculative for decades are now beginning
to take form in public and commercial information systems both here and
abroad. The challenge these developments pose to the printed newspaper
could very well transform it.
Future technology trends; Disruptive technologies; Journalism; News dissemination; News production
Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2142/11021979-01-01T00:00:00ZMarvin, CarolynThe impact of technology on the production and distribution of the news. Part 1: Computerized newsroomshttp://hdl.handle.net/2142/1101
The impact of technology on the production and distribution of the news. Part 1: Computerized newsrooms
Mander, Mary S.
Publishers turned to the computer, with varying degrees of success, to
solve problems which the industry faced as it entered the decade of the
1960s. Once the new technology arrived in the pressroom, however, it
precipitated the reemergence of an age-old problem: man versus the
machine a problem which dates back to times when a civilization based
on the pasture and the plough gave way to one based on industry. Besides
its impact on the ranks of labor, the computer, once it entered the newsroom
itself, transformed the organization of the press. It has made possible
the development of small papers which operate as satellites to larger
metropolitan dailies. In other words, the future holds the possibility of a
growth of electronic newspaper networks.
The task of this article is threefold. First, I will cover the historical
circumstances leading to the adaptation of the computer to the newsroom,
and give a thumbnail sketch of the uses to which it has been put. Second, I will make note of the impact the computer has had on labor. Finally, I will
investigate how the new technology has made possible the development of
satellite presses.
Disruptive technologies; Future technology trends; Journalism; News production
Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2142/11011979-01-01T00:00:00ZMander, Mary S.A pilot implementation of electronic mail at Combustion Engineeringhttp://hdl.handle.net/2142/1100
A pilot implementation of electronic mail at Combustion Engineering
Levy, Leonard G.
Combustion Engineering (C-E) has a need for its capabilities to unite a widely decentralized and highly diverse management organization. And it has a desire to provide its management with the best tools possible for their activities. The implementation
of the Office of the Future at C-E began with a pilot installation of electronic mail. Electronic mail is the backbone of the Office of the Future. It is the thread that will ultimately link all the other parts and was the logical place to begin our implementation. The pilot project was designed and programmed in 1977 and was operational from January 1 to June 30, 1978.
Libraries --Automation; Library science --Data processing; Future technology trends; Disruptive technologies; Electronic mail
Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2142/11001979-01-01T00:00:00ZLevy, Leonard G.The role of the library in an electronic societyhttp://hdl.handle.net/2142/1099
The role of the library in an electronic society
Lancaster, F.W.; Drasgow, Laura S.; Marks, Ellen B.
In 1978 the Library Research Center of the University of Illinois Graduate
School of Library Science was awarded a grant by the National Science
Foundation to investigate the impact of a paperless society on the research
library of the future. The basic premise underlying our ongoing research is
that many types of publications can be distributed more effectively in
electronic form and that, in fact, future economic factors will dictate that
they be distributed electronically. Within the long history of human communication,
the print-on-paper era will prove to be a short one: a period of
little more than 500 years. Clearly, we are evolving out of this paper-based
era into one that is electronic. We are presently in a transitional phase in
the natural evolution from paper to electronic communication. This transitional
phase appears to have three major characteristics: ( 1 ) the computer
is presently used to print on paper, (2) printed data bases exist side by side
with their machine-readable counterparts, and (3) new data bases are
emerging only in electronic form. By and large, machine-readable data
bases have not yet replaced print-on-paper data bases, but this will
undoubtedly occur quite soon.
Libraries --Automation; Library science --Data processing; Future technology trends; Disruptive technologies
Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2142/10991979-01-01T00:00:00ZLancaster, F.W.Drasgow, Laura S.Marks, Ellen B.Computer technology: A forecast for the futurehttp://hdl.handle.net/2142/1098
Computer technology: A forecast for the future
Kubitz, William J.
In order to understand the impact of computer technology in the 1980s one
must first understand the force underlying its ever-widening proliferation:
electronic integrated circuit technology. Integrated circuit technology's
impact on society will rank in importance with the invention of the steam
engine and other such technological innovations or perhaps surpass
them. This technology is presently in its infancy. Most of us are aware of
some of the early progeny: calculators and electronic watches and games.
Some may be aware that it is now possible to buy a small home computer
for about $700. This is just the beginning of what will become a wide
variety of products which will affect every person. The reason? Low cost.
The semiconductor process continues to enable ever-greater complexity at
ever-decreasing cost. The future will bring lower-cost storage, processing
and communications.
Libraries --Automation; Library science --Data processing; Future technology trends; Disruptive technologies
Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2142/10981979-01-01T00:00:00ZKubitz, William J.